Harris, who has cut an impressive path in notching nearly 20 goals for the Reserves this season, broke his first team duck in style after a couple of previous appearances on the bench.

Dave Innis crossed from the right for Harris to head into the bottom corner from six yards with 15 minutes to go and, soon after, he ran onto a long clearance from goalkeeper Ian Cox to slot the ball past the home custodian.

Innis had put Massey ahead on 12 minutes when he collected a long ball to round the keeper and then Mark Patterson fed Jez Carpenter and kept running to take the return and net with a cracking drive into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.

Massey were awarded a 25th-minute penalty when Jules Smith put Innis through and he was hauled down but Mattie Cairns' weak spot kick was easily saved - and Massey went right off the boil to concede a sloppy goal after Cox misjudged a cross and the ball was headed home.

Massey boss Loz Cairns said: "We were buzzing until the missed penalty which we felt could have resulted in two of their men being sent-off, one for the foul and the other for swearing at a linesman.

"It seemed to knock the stuffing out of us but we had a good chat at half-time and there was only one team in it after the interval. Everyone played well and it was nice to see Chris Harris score his opening goals for the first team."

Leamington boosted their Division One title charge with an all-important 3-1 defeat of Old Hill at the New Windmill.

With leaders Rugby Town losing to fourth-placed Loughborough, Brakes have cut the deficit to 16 points with the advantage of five games in hand - one of which is at home to Rugby on Easter Monday.

"It is still a tall order but we feel we can do it," said Jason Cadden, joint Leamington boss with Barry Proctor.

"We face a massive game away to Knowle on Saturday, tackle Rugby on Easter Monday, entertain Kenilworth Town on Wednesday and then go to Northfield on the Saturday.

"Ten points from 12 would do us, but the mood the lads are in I wouldn't be surprised if they won all four."

Goalkeeper Richard Morris made three brilliant stops to deny fast starting Old Hill. Josh Blake then put Leamington ahead after 30 minutes and from then on it was mostly one-way traffic, Paul Nicholls and substitute Steve Thompson scoring the other goals to complete a deserved triumph.

Injury-hit Rugby turned in a poor display at Loughborough with only a series of fine stops by goalkeeper Mark Leach restricting the home side to one goal - Rugby will be looking for a dramatic improvement when they take a 2-0 lead to Fairfield Villa inn the second leg of the Internal Cup tomorrow night.